No, they didn't even race at first. Then Old Man Bentley got the racing bug when some of his employees and a customer took the cars to Le Mans. That ended up in the part of history known as The Bentley Boys, who were very successful.
Oh, I was way off. Thats cool. Weren't they a big rival of Enzo back in the 30's or 40's?
Not so much by then. The company foundered and ended up being purchased by Rolls Royce and was owned by them for a long, long time. They ended their factory involvement with racing - but customers will raced with off-the-books factory support for a while.
Then, in the late 90s they started back up again. With plans reaching fruition in the 2000s. They've been rocking it ever since.
There's a marketing slogan.
"You get driven in a Rolls. You drive a Bentley."
That's why you need one of each, sometimes you need to get driven and sometimes you need to drive. Just don't let your lawyer be the over to drive you when you're getting driven!
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